Hans Verbeeck has all the information:
- TechEd Europe moved to November
- new Location: Barcelona
- 2 seperate conferences for Developers & IT Pro
- this makes it possible for more 400 sessions!
Great changes!
Christian
Hans Verbeeck has all the information:
Great changes!
Christian
Posted at 08:56 PM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
We are just at the start of mobile computing. When I'm working in different countries around Europe using different ways to connect to the Internet I'm alway trying to answer the question "how could someone without much IT experience use that?". There are many times when I can't get a connection.
Today I've arrived at a 5-star hotel in Basel, Switzerland. The room description offers a low-cost high-speed Internet connection. The description doesn't tell what "low-cost" means. That doesn't matter anyway. Because it doesn't work. "It doesn't work today. It didn't work the last two days" was the answer from the reception.
I remember two years ago in Barcelona where a wireless network from a big provider was available in the streets. The home page from the provider allowed setting the language of the first page to English instead of Spanish. However, the following pages where payment was necessary switched back to Spanish. I failed to access the service.
Why am I connected now? I have a A1 Vodafone UMTS/GPRS card. Of course the first connections didn't work. It's always some minutes to wait for a timeout. Restarting the application and re-inserting the card helped. Earlier versions of the software always required a reboot of the operating system.
When the connection is working with the UMTS/GPRS card, there are very high roaming rates.
Last week I've been in Salzburg. At the location of my hotel I had very good signals from other providers in Austria, but a very bad signal from my own provider. The connection was lost every few seconds. Roaming is not possible within the country.
Mobile computing offers rich possibilities, but there's still a long way to go.
Christian
Posted at 10:34 PM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Shawn Steele created a custom culture for Klingon with an LDML file for Windows Vista!
Shawn's post Why and How I Chose Klingon for an Example gives more insight of Klingon. Shawn doesn't wear Klingon masks. I did. ;-) In 2004 I've created a custom Klingon culture that is used to read resources. Shawn has an additional feature: he offers Klingon month names with the custom culture! Similar to Shawn I've also searched for translation of month names and failed. While Shawn did a great job doing his own Klingon translation I decided to demonstrate a different calendar: the Mars calendar (see the second screenshot). The Mars calendar has different days in a year and number of months. It seems that no documentation on earth exists about this information from Klingon.
Christian
Posted at 09:36 PM in Foundation, Personal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
My friend and colleague Buddhike de Silva got the MVP award! He is MVP for the Windows Server System - XML Web Services!
Congratulations!
Christian
Posted at 10:25 AM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Today I've received a congratulation email from Ken Rosen (Microsoft Program Manager, MCT) that I've reached the tenth anniversary of being an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). I didn't know that I'm already MCT for ten years!
Checking my MCP transcript, I'm MCP since 1993, MCT since 1995, and MCSD since 1996.
These last years really a lot of products came along. I started working with Microsoft products with a beta version of Windows NT 3.1. Before that I've used Unix and VMS products. Since that time I've never stopped working with beta versions ;-)
The future will bring a lot more interesting stuff! The next weeks I'm helping customers with courses and consulting developing .NET 2.0 applications, and I'm already working with cool technologies that will be released some time after .NET 2.0.
Christian
Posted at 08:38 PM in Courses, Personal | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Peter Nowak hat eine Plattform zum Informationsaustausch zwischen Ausbildern und Studenten ins Leben gerufen: http://fiaeon.net.
Alles Gute!
Christian
Posted at 11:01 AM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Bookpool has published my list of favorite books!
Check it out!
Christian
Posted at 12:30 AM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Microsoft Hellhounds are the winner of the RoboCup German Open 2005!
Christian
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For TechEd Europe we (INETA Europe) need proposals for Birds of a Feather sessions!
Meet other attendees with similar interests!
Damir Tomicic has all the information about Birds of a Feather!
Christian
Posted at 08:55 AM in Personal, TechEd | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Brad Abrahams fragt ob alle Programmierer Englisch sprechen.
Ich selbst bevorzuge Englische Literatur; mir ist es auch lieber Englische Bücher anstatt deutschsprachiger Artikel zu schreiben. Von meinen Kollegen und Kunden weiß ich aber doch dass oft deutschsprachige Bücher und Kursunterlagen bevorzugt werden.
Non-English VB.NET oder C# Code Samples bitte an Brad!
Christian
Posted at 01:32 PM in Personal | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)